deal - bridge hand generator

       deal was written by Thomas Andrews <deal@thomaso.best.vwh.net>.

       This  manual page was written by Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
       others).

                                                 January 1, 2005                                         DEAL(6)

deal is a program to generate bridge hands.

       deal - bridge hand generator

-l     Write deals in a "single-line" format.

       -t     Print distribution table and exit.  The distribution table is an ordered list of all possible hand
              patterns for a single hand.

       -v     Be verbose, print sample count.

       -eexpr
              Evaluate the Tcl expression expr.

       -iconditionfile
              File that defines the hand type to generate or the output format.  (Can be given multiple times.)

       -Iformat
              Read  hands  from stdin.  Formats available are: ddline, giblib, line, pbn, smartstack.  You might
              deal, say, 10,000 hands which satisfy specific criteria, saving them to a file.  Then you can  use
              that output for input with deal -I to find out which hands satisfy other constraints.

       -sseed
              Initialize random generator with seed.

       -[NSEW]hand-spec
              Specifies  the  cards  held  by the specified hand. The hand-spec should be of the form: "AK8532 -
              KQ72 A65". Voids must be represented with a '-' character.  hand-spec should be one  argument,  so
              the string should be quoted on the command line.

       count  Number of hands to generate, default is 10.

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deal [ -ltv ] [ -e expr ] [ -i condition file ] [ -I format ] [ -s seed ] [ -[NSEW] hand-spec ] [ count ]